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71-year-old woman passenger killed in Christmas Day crash in Hamilton
News from NZ Police
A woman was killed in a crash at the intersection of Te Rapa Rd and Avalon Drive in Hamilton at about 12.30 this morning. She was 71-year-old Chinese national Rongmei Wang.
Four other passengers were in the vehicle. Three of those passengers were uninjured and one passenger received a minor injury.
The other vehicle involved left the scene but was later found.
Enquiries are in progress to identify the identity of the driver.
Update from NZ Police
Waikato Police are commending a motorist who followed a driver fleeing the scene of a fatal vehicle crash. Waikato Road Policing Manager, Inspector Marcus Lynam, said emergency services were called to the scene of a two vehicle collision at the intersection of Avalon Dr and Te Rapa Rd about 12.35pm.
"A 71-year-old woman travelling as a rear seat passenger in a north bound Mitsubishi Colt suffered fatal injuries when her vehicle was struck by an east bound Toyota Hi-lux utility.
"The Colt had been travelling on Te Rapa Rd where as the utility had been travelling on SH1-Avalon Dr and the intersection where the collision took place is controlled by traffic lights."
Mr Lynam said a member of the public phoned 111 and advised they were following the driver of the utility as the vehicle fled from the scene. "It was recovered by Police at a Pukete address a short time later thanks to the assistance of that member of the public.
"Since then a suspended female driver, believed to be aged 26-years-old, has been located by Police and this person and the driver of the other car will be interviewed once all parties from each vehicle have received medical treatment."
Mr Lynam said it was too early to say which, if any driver was at fault and if any charges would be laid.
"This crash brings the Waikato Police District's road toll to 45 and it is the second Christmas in a row that emergency services have been called out to deal with a fatality on a day that is supposed to be about celebration.
"While we work to establish the cause of this latest tragedy Waikato Police are asking motorists to stick to the basics, stay away from the booze, wear your seatbelt, keep left, watch your speed and treat every road you travel with respect. Above all we want you to drive to survive this summer."


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A private correspondence about bridal mysticism has prompted me to compare and contrast some of its features, as I experienced them, with Orthodox spirituality, which is also mystical.
First, Orthodoxy recognizes and affirms some of bridal mysticism's salient points, such as:
• That all our understandings of God and of ourselves are only partial; especially God's goodness is beyond our comprehension.
• That God's love and the call to love Him in return takes precedence over every other consideration
• That God can be encountered directly and immediately (= without "means")
• That God in some sense is present in all things and in all people, even the most damaged.
In all these ways and probably more, bridal and Orthodox mysticism overlap or coincide. There are, however, differences in some underlying assumptions and in method that serve as correctives, so you reach the right goal. Without these correctives, one is apt to end up, as I did, in a far different place. In this post I will try to summarize these the different ways in which the goal is conceived. In two later posts, I'll take up the issues of method and of underlying doctrine.
"Loving God" might seem obvious as our goal, but we need to be clearer than that. Gerald May, in The Dark Night of the Soul, describes the effect of the dark night on pages 99-100, using an explanation of Bernard of Clairvaux. One moves from love of self for one's own sake to love of God for one's own sake (which, we note, is still selfishness) to love of God for His own sake (good!) to love of self for God's sake. Oops. See, the problem is that salvation is not about self-fulfillment. Orthodox Christianity points us to the truth that we do not need to love ourselves to be happy. Not that we should despise ourselves, whom God loves, but that love of God and others, by the brilliance of its joy, simply eclipses anything concerning ourselves. To love is to experience the true and greatest and only Joy, is to participate in God. As St. John writes, "he who lives in love lives in God, and God in him." (1 John 4:16)
Furthermore, this kind of love is much more like the love of a very small child for everybody, the eager, joyful acceptance they show, than it is like newlywed love, which is exlusivistic, individualized, and sexualized. Divine love is something that is meant to pour out of us rather than something with which we are self-occupied, something of which we are consumers.
This very Bernard of Clairvaux, his century's most prominent practitioner of bridal mysticism, consistently showed himself more of a consumer of love than a giver. You can see that in the two hymns of his I've discussed elsewhere. You can also see it in the fact that he spent the last 12 years of his life preaching Crusade. Here is a sample sermon to horrify you. Bernard's friend, Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny, a man of great compassion and love (who refused to have anything to do with preaching Crusade), once told Bernard, "You perform all the difficult religious duties; you fast, you watch, you suffer; but you will not endure the easy ones--you do not love."
I don't tell you this was Bernard's fault, necessarily; it was what he was taught. Instead I have to tell you that, taught the same thing, and following the same bridal mysticism, I didn't end up in a loving place, either. Far from it! And that is no wonder; in fact it seems inevitable when we discover that bridal mysticism has a different goal.
A respected, if sometimes controversial, and sometimes sharp-toned, Orthodox scholar was Fr. John Romanides. In his book, The Ancestral Sin, he writes that the kind of philosophy upon which bridal mysticism is based
is not capable of transcending the idea of selfish eudaemonia (self-contentment) because ... that which is perfect is unmoved toward anything outside of itself. It if is thought to move toward something, then the unmoved either moves toward that which is part of itself (pantheism) or it is not truly perfect. The moral perfection of those things that derive from the One is acquired through their union with the most high One, and then every movement and desire is terminated. In other words, moral perfection consists in the fulfilling satisfaction of the selfish eudaemonia of man. It has nothing to do with the attainment of unselfish love but instead with the total and highest degree of fulfillment of the selfishness that rules man. According to these presuppositions, then, the fall consists of an inexplicable turning away of man's selfish love from the highest good to secondary things. Consequently, the penalty for this irrational act consists mainly of the deprivation of the only thing capable of really satisfying man's selfish inclination…the soul lacks only the correct object towards which it needs to be directed. For the West, therefore, it is not a matter of spiritual labor to attain the image and likeness of God in the full freedom of being perfected, as it is with Greek patristic theology, but merely a matter of losing or gaining the highest good.
That's on pages 107-108. He adds, on pages 112-133:
Man was not made to be self-seeking and drawn by the supreme One so that, once he had been joined with it, man would cease to desire anything. If in fact the destiny of the soul is to incline toward the highest good and to find self-contentment in it, what kind of relationship can the soul have with secondary beings if it should ever achieve its goal? If the soul becomes totally satisfied by the union with the One, how can it also be inclined toward other beings like itself, or even lower beings, and maintain a relationship of love with them also?
And on page 106: "But man was not made for the purpose of finding satisfaction of the supposedly natural, self-centered longings within himself and, thus, of becoming unmoved and dispassionate. On the contrary, he was specifically made so he can love God and his fellow man with the same love that God has for the world."
For the Orthodox, the battle is to acquire full, free, joyous acceptance and embrace of God and all His creation. Or in different words, to be conformed to the image of Christ. (Romans 8:29) Not to achieve the "Highest Good," meaning the highest consumer good.
Nor is it to acquire knowledge and understanding, using love as the means to that end. No, love in its own right, for its own sake, is the end, for "God is love."
This is not to say we do not rejoice in God and find great comfort in His Presence. We do, and we tell Him so in endless praises. The point is, enjoyment and comfort and pleasure and inner "sweetness", in Christianity, are not meant to be the goal; conformity to Christ is. Union with His sufferings and His resurrection is. Becoming free of the needs for enjoyment, comfort, and pleasure, free simply to love as He loves, that is the goal.

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I was walking the Digital Life trade floor today looking for anything shiny to play with. I ran into a product called the Neuros OSD, probably because some light glinted off its surface and caught me in the eye.
At first I thought it was another type of external hard drive solution, and wasn't really impressed. However, sometime during the press-pitch I learned about some of its features, and realized that the OSD is really something worth mentioning.
It attaches to most media devices like TiVos, DVRs, Cable TV boxes, camcorders, DVD players, or RCA/S-video sources. Any media on the aforementioned devices can then be transferred over to other platforms, such as external hard drives, PCs on the network via an Ethernet cable, memory cards, or MP4 players and iPods (including the iPhone, according to a Neuros spokesperson).
The cool part about the Neuros is that it acts as a sidestepper to any DRM locking, so you can easily just play a DVD in your DVD player and have it transfer directly to your iPod as it's playing. At the display booth I saw an example and ended up watching Ice Age on somebody's iPhone.
It records any media in MPEG4 (.MP4 and .ASF) and plays the media back at DVD-resolution. Really, though, this is aimed at bringing 320x240 video content to devices like smart phones and handhelds like the PSP, although it can still record at 640 x 480 for Tvs.
According to the team, the whole Neuros OSD project is Open source, and it's planning on a ton of outside developer applications in the future. The OSD retails for $239.99.


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Two-day bus tour highlights Carson City's water issues
From Carson City's drinking water to its wastewater, from Carson River's headwaters to the Carson desert, a bus tour this week showed why water is a bit like oil.
In a word, valuable.
The two-day "Get on the Bus" Carson River watershed tour ending Thursday demonstrated that there is too little water much of the time and too much during floods. Like a watery famine, the 184 miles of watershed becomes parched in drought years. A water feast brings a floodplain bloated with H2O. But dry is the byword now.
"You'll see in the Carson — especially this summer — the river will go dry," said Edwin James, manager of the Carson Water Subconservancy District, which sponsored and shepherded the touring troupe Wednesday and Thursday. Lack of water stems in part from low snowmelt runoff in the Sierra Nevada, where the river originates.
As with oil, too little water causes tension and too much can result in a flood of problems of an entirely different sort.
The too-little/too-much scenario was emphasized when James and other experts along for the ride detailed problems from flooding that periodically has inundated Carson Valley's floodway in the Minden-Gardnerville area and in Carson City, particularly the 1997 event.
In fact, the entire trip was an alternating opportunity to look at the contrasts and capacities provided by nature and the human footprint along the river through history, today and projecting into the future.
On Wednesday, the fully loaded bus trekked to Alpine County, Calif., in the mountain range southwest of Carson City, to give riders a look at meadows restoration near the river's headwaters.
There, Carson City Dr. Gregory Hayes, former health officer in Alpine County and a founding member of the Friends of Hope Valley, said the river meadow is recovering slowly, via restoration, from 19th-century man-made problems.
He cited clear-cutting of trees in the area, plus heavy grazing of sheep and cattle well into the 20th century. Rules slowly came into effect and altered land use in Alpine County, he said.
The tour began at Carson City's Quill water plant on the city's west side. There, water is treated to ensure it is drinkable. The city has the Quill plant and 32 groundwater wells for production, taking its water from both surface and groundwater sources.
Brandon Mathiesen, water-production supervisor, explained the filtration process and said Quill typically handles 2 million to 4 million gallons daily. He added that increasing capacity would be expensive. Another pair of filter tanks would cost $1.5 million just for the hardware — significantly more with software included, Mathiesen said.
He also said any need for more capacity is based on water availability rather than population growth.
On Thursday, the tour took in the city's wastewater-treatment plant on the east side and learned about that plant's aging capacity, which will cost millions to rectify.
The Board of Supervisors is grappling with issues regarding both water and wastewater rates. Public Works staff has come up with plans that might raise rates significantly for water and sewer service to pay for capital needs, particularly because the wastewater-treatment plant requires an upgrade.
Tour participants also heard from Parks and Recreation Director Roger Moellendorf, who gave an overview Thursday of the city's open space along the river and in other city locations.
In part by using Question 18 Quality of Life funds, approved by city voters in the 1990s, city government has acquired 6,928 acres — 1,761 on the west side and 5,167 on the east. Many of those east-side acres are along the river.
Moellendorf said the cost was $18.2 million, or $7,667 per acre, and $11 million of that came from federal or state grants.
He said there are various purposes that include passive recreation uses, such as trails, and protection of city drinking water. He also said the Board of Supervisors has instructed city staffers to shift from land-purchasing to land-management mode.
Later Thursday, the tour moved on into Lyon and Churchill counties to the east. Among things seen were the Lahontan Reservoir Lake near Fallon, a man-made lake for recreation and agricultural purposes that this year is quite low due to a second year of dry conditions. East of Fallon, the river plays out in the desert and the Carson Sink.
James and his subconservancy staff talked of conditions ebbing and flowing with snowmelt, providing information throughout the trip about the history of drought and flooding, plus current prospects and efforts to deal with the two-sided watershed problems.
"Even in the old days, Carson River ran dry in dry years," James said. Now, he indicated, climate change and other factors such as development in the floodplain can seem to heighten the contrast of too much/too little water in the watershed.
He said river water rights, governed in part by a historic Alpine court case decision, have river water use allocated 100 percent. He said anyone seeking a water right must purchase it from someone else now. He also said because of dry conditions, the river will go under regulation in a week or so to handle the existing water-use load.


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Yesterday we brought you the first image of Chris Pine as a young Jack Ryan in Kenneth Branagh's Jack Ryan. Now, Paramount Pictures has given us the first look at Kevin Costner playing a legendary CIA field agent in the film. Jack Ryan puts Pine in the shoes of the famous Tom Clancy character that has previously been portrayed onscreen by Alec Baldwin (The Hunt for Red October), Harrison Ford (Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger), and Ben Affleck (The Sum of All Fears). This prequel finds Pine's ex-Marine Jack Ryan working as a Moscow-based financial analyst who uncovers a plot by his employer to finance a terrorist attack designed to collapse the U.S. economy. Branagh not only directs, but stars as the villain with Keira Knightley also onboard as the female lead. Jack Ryan, currently shooting in downtown Manhattan, opens Christmas Day, 2013. Hit the jump to see the first look at Costner.
The first image of Costner in Jack Ryan comes courtesy of Paramount Pictures, Skydance Productions and photographer David Lee. We're happy to share it with you below (click for hi res):


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Searching HAProxy Enterprise 2.0r1
Installing on Debian 9 (Stretch)
Installing on Debian 9 (Stretch)
HAProxy Enterprise is distributed through the Operating System package manager.
We offer two ways of installing our product:
A quick procedure where you run a script to install the load balancer and its associated components (see below for Quick installation), or
A step-by-step procedure with detailed explanations at each stage of the installation of the load balancer and its associated components (see the section Detailed installation).
Quick installation
This procedure adds package repositories and installs HAProxy Enterprise. After the installation, you can install additional components to extend the functionalities of your load balancer.
Run the following command on the server where you want to install HAProxy Enterprise, and replace <HAProxy Enterprise Key> with the key you received when you registered.
curl -s https://cdn.haproxy.com/static/install_haproxy_enterprise.sh | sudo bash /dev/stdin 2.0r1 <HAProxy Enterprise key>
Start HAProxy Enterprise:
sudo systemctl enable hapee-2.0-lb sudo systemctl start hapee-2.0-lb
On older systems that do not have
systemctl, use:
sudo service hapee-2.0-lb start
Detailed installation
The following procedure gives detailed explanations at each stage of the installation of the load balancer and its associated components.
Create a new file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hapee.list if it does not exist, and add the contents below. Replace <HAProxy Enterprise Key> with the key you received when you registered.
deb [arch=amd64] https://www.haproxy.com/download/hapee/key/<HAProxy Enterprise Key>-common/2.0r1/debian-stretch/amd64/ stretch main deb [arch=amd64] https://www.haproxy.com/download/hapee/key/<HAProxy Enterprise Key>-plus/2.0r1/debian-stretch/amd64/ stretch main deb [arch=amd64] https://www.haproxy.com/download/hapee/key/<HAProxy Enterprise Key>-plus/extras/debian-stretch/amd64/ stretch main
Install required dependencies:
sudo apt-get install --yes apt-transport-https dirmngr gnupg-agent
The packages that HAProxy Technologies provides are signed. To install them, you first must import the public key. Run the following command, and replace <HAProxy Enterprise Key> with the key you received when you registered.
wget -O - https://www.haproxy.com/download/hapee/key/<HAProxy Enterprise Key>-common/HAPEE-key-2.0r1.asc | sudo apt-key add -
Update the repository cache:
sudo apt-get update
To install the load balancer, run:
sudo apt-get install hapee-2.0r1-lb
Output of a successful installation:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: hapee-2.0r1-base openssl Suggested packages: ca-certificates The following NEW packages will be installed: hapee-2.0r1-base hapee-2.0r1-lb openssl 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. [...]
To start HAProxy Enterprise, run:
sudo systemctl enable hapee-2.0-lb sudo systemctl start hapee-2.0-lb
If you have installed Rsyslog, restart it now to begin collecting HAProxy logs:
sudo systemctl restart rsyslog
Install additional modules
HAProxy Enterprise comes with additional native and third-party modules such as the Real-time Dashboard and Antibot modules. Packages are separated into three repositories, which you already added during the installation.
Package Repository
Contains the primary components for HAProxy Enterprise
Contains add-on modules that extend HAProxy Enterprise
Contains supporting software: SNMP, RHI, VRRP, etc.
See available packages.
This list is also available by running the following command:
apt-cache search hapee-2.0r1
To find packages within the HAProxy Enterprise 'extras' repository, run:
apt-cache search hapee-extras
Install a package using its name, for example:
sudo apt-get install hapee-2.0r1-lb-update
See other parts of this documentation for instructions on how to enable and configure each package.
Locate installed directories
HAProxy Enterprise files are installed following these rules:
Binaries and documentation are in
/opt/hapee-2.0/ |-- bin |-- certs |-- doc |-- misc |-- misc |-- modules \`-- sbin
Configuration is installed in
/etc/hapee-2.0/ |-- hapee-lb.cfg |-- hapee-log.cfg |-- hapee-snmp.cfg \`-- hapee-vrrp.cfg
initscripts are installed in
/etc/init.d/ |-- hapee-2.0 |-- hapee-2.0-lb |-- hapee-extras-snmp-lb |-- hapee-extras-stktagg |-- hapee-extras-spoa-sso |-- hapee-extras-route |-- hapee-extras-rhi \`-- hapee-extras-vrrp
Configure HAProxy Enterprise
After you complete the installation, you can configure HAProxy Enterprise using the instructions in the Configuration section from the left-hand menu bar.


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HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER Extends Through Today
Due to overwhelming demand, Off-Broadway's newest hit comedy How To Be a New Yorker today put a new block of seats on sale through May 25th. Written and performed by Margaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle, How To Be a New Yorker opened on October 17, 2012 to rave reviews at Sofia's Downstairs Theater in the heart of Times Square.
Being a New Yorker is not just about a city; it is badge of honor, so come earn yours! Take a laugh filled tour around the greatest city in the world with actors, comedians and licensed tour guides Margaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle as they play over 60 characters. This "Saturday Night Live" style comedy features a hilarious look at NYC's 400 year history. Immigrants, construction workers, muggers, Wall Street bankers, panhandlers, MTA workers, and Mayor Bloomberg all get a solid lampooning! It doesn't matter if you were born on the Upper West Side or just took your first terrifying cab ride, you will love learning How To Be a New Yorker.
HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER is produced Off-Broadway by CRC Productions and Marie B Productions. The playing schedule is Fridays at 7:30 PM and Saturdays at 2 PM. Pre-show lunch or dinner is served beginning 30 minutes before each performance at Sofia's Downstairs Theater, 221 West 46 Street (between Broadway & Eighth Ave.) Matinee tickets are $45 (which includes lunch) and evening performances are $55 (including dinner), and are available by calling 212-352-3101 or through www.How2BaNewYorker.com.


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SANFORD — Curtis Lake Church at 38 Westview Drive serves free community meals every Monday at 5:30 p.m. A church service follows the meal at 6:15 p.m. For more information, call 324-0652.
SANFORD — The Cancer Care Center of York County will continue its Winter Community Education Series on Wednesday, Feb. 6, with Yoga Instructor Janine Robichaud's presentation about Hatha Yoga. Two free classes will be offered from 2 to 3 p.m. and 6 to 7 p.m. Hatha Yoga focuses on deep breathing and stretching. This class is being offered for cancer patients as well as their families and caregivers. Hatha Yoga gives a person a chance to relax and de-stress while increasing physical mobility and mental calmness. Light refreshments will be served, and pre-registration is required; if interested, please contact Shannon Legere at 207-459-1658.
SPRINGVALE — The Sanford-Springvale Historical Museum at 505 Main St. is open from 2 to 8 p.m. on Thursdays, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Fridays, and from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.
SANFORD — Calling all fathers and daughters in grades K through 8! The Sanford-Springvale YMCA will hold its annual Father-Daughter Valentine's Dance at the St. Ignatius Parish hall on Riverside Avenue on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 6 to 8 p.m. The gym will be transformed into a fantasy land of pink and red flower petals, glistening lights and tiaras. This is a great event for dads and daughters to spend a special night dancing, laughing and making memories to last a lifetime. Due to the popularity of this event, tickets will not be sold on the day of the event or at the door. Tickets are now on sale at the Y off River Street until Friday, Feb. 8. For more information, call 324-4942 or send an email to email@example.com.
NORTH BERWICK — The Small Woodland Owners Association of America will hold a free workshop, "Woodland Owners 101," at the North Berwick Community Center at 266 Lebanon Road, on Saturday, Jan. 26, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. This workshop, for the beginner, is an overview of the tools necessary for timberland management and ownership. Ken Canfield, the district forester for the Maine Forest Service, will lead the workshop. A light lunch will be served. Please RSVP, so there will be ample food. The workshop is open to the public. To request more information, or to RSVP, please contact Debi Hartford at email@example.com or 793-8886.
ALFRED — Are you a maple syrup enthusiast? Do you tap a few trees or wish you knew how? Members of the Southern Maine Maple Sugarmakers will host a hobbyist workshop at Gile's Family Farm Sugar House at 147 Shaker Hill Road on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 10 a.m. to noon. To request more information or to register, please contact Debi Hartford at 793-8886 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
SANFORD — The Sanford Springvale SALT (Seniors and Law Enforcement Together) Council will host a "Community at Work" workshop at the Y Trafton Center at 19 Elm Street on Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m. The purpose of the workshop will be to show residents all the ways in which they can volunteer in the community. Those who attend will be able to speak directly with representatives from such local organizations as the YMCA, the Trafton Center, Goodall Hospital, Southern Maine Agency on Aging, the Salvation Army, Visiting Nurses, Sanford Downtown Legacy, York County Community Action, the Nasson Community Center, Caring Unlimited, food pantries, Waban Projects, the Greenwood Center, Literacy Volunteers of Maine, the libraries, Allied Health and SS Network, and more. A suggested donation of $2 will be requested. Light refreshments will be provided. Please call Thea Murphy at 457-0080 for more information.


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Categories: Sports, Track And Field
2017 Mt. Sac Relays
The 2017 Mt. Sac Relays took place at El Camino College in Torrance, California in April. The Oregon women's track team, which won the NCAA cross-country, indoor and outdoor championhips during the 2016-2017 year, were the stars of this three-day meet in Southern California. The Ducks were led by sprinters Deajah Stevens and Raevyn Rogers.
48th Annual NAACP Image Awards
The 48th Annual NAACP Image Awards comes to the Pasadena Civic Center for two days on Feb. 10 and Feb. 11, 2017. The annual awards show honors the best of the best in the arts and entertainment sphere for people of color.
Category: Entertainment
Pac-12 Football: Oregon vs. USC
The USC Trojans rolled up 579 yards in total offense in beat the Oregon Ducks 45-20 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016. Sam Darnold goes for 309 yards and a pair of touchdowns, while Ronald Jones rack up 171 yards on the ground. Photo by Dennis J. Freeman/News4usonline.com
Pac-12 Football: USC-UCLA 2016
The USC Trojans defeated crosstown rival UCLA by the score of 36-14 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. The annual game played by the two Pac-12 Conference teams saw the Trojans extend their win streak during the 2016 season to seven games. Photos by Dennis J. Freeman/News4usonline.com
San Diego Chargers-Tennessee Titans '16
Behind the 196 yards rushing by Melvin Gordon, the San Diego Chargers defeated the Tennessee Titans, 43-35, at Qualcomm Stadium on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota threw for 313 yards and three touchdowns in the AFC loss. Photos by William Johnson/News4usonline.com
San Diego Chargers-Miami Dolphins 2016
The San Diego Chargers battle the Miami Dolphins at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. The Dolphins defeated the Chargers by the score of 31-24. Photos by Kevin Reece/News4usonline.com.
Category: Nfl
Clippers-Pistons 2016
The Los Angeles Clippers hosted the Detroit Pistons at Staples Center on Monday, Nov. 7, 2016. Chris Paul led the team in scoring with 24 points as the Clippers defeated the Pistons by the score of 114-82. Photos by Dennis J. Freeman/News4usonline.com
Pac-12 Football: USC-Colorado 2016
The USC Trojans defeated the Colorado Buffaloes by the score of 21-17 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016. Photos by Dennis J. Freeman/News4usonline.com
NFL: Chargers-Jaguars 2016
The San Diego Chargers entertain the Jacksonville Jaguars at Qualcomm Stadium on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016. The Chargers defeat the Jaguars 38-14. Photos by Tiffany Zablosky/News4usonline.com
NFL: Chargers-Saints 2016
The New Orleans Saints defeated the San Diego Chargers by the score of 35-34 at Qualcomm Stadium on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Photos by Kevin Reece/News4usonline.com
USATF San Diego
Athletes compete in one of the last qualifying meets for USATF Olympic Trials. The track and field meet takes place at San Diego Mesa College, and features Allyson Felix and Melisa and Mikele Barber.
Lakers-Clippers 2016
The Los Angeles Clippers take on the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples center on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. Photos by Dennis J. Freeman/News4usonline.com
LA Clippers-OKC Thunder
Chris Paul and the Los Angeles Clippers go toe-to-tow with Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder at Staples Center on Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Photos by Kevin Reece/News4usonline.com
LA Rams Cheer Auditions
400 participants show up for the Los Angeles Rams cheer auditions at the USC Galen Center in Los Angeles, California. Photos by Dennis J. Freeman for News4usonline.com
LA Clippers-Chicago Bulls
The Los Angles Clippers pick up the Chicago Bulls at Staples Center in the visitors' trip to the Southland in 2016. Photos by Kevin Reece for News4usonline.com
Clippers-Warriors 2016
The Clippers host Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors at Staples Center on Feb. 20, 1206. The Warriors top the Clippers with a 115-112 win. All Photos by Kevin Reece for News4usonline.com
22nd Annual SAG Awards
The 22nd Annual SAG Awards at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016. Photos by Dennis J. Freeman/News4usonline.com
Clippers-76ers 2016
The Los Angeles Clippers take on the Philadelphia 76ers at Staples Center on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016. The Clippers, led by Austin Rivers, defeated the Sixers 130-99. Photos by Kevin Reece/News4usonline.com
2015 SDCCU Poinsettia Bowl
Boise State take on Northern Illinois University at Qualcomm Stadium during the 2015 San Diego County Credit Union Poinsttia Bowl.
NFL: Chargers-Bears 2015
Monday Night Football matchup between the San Diego Chargers and Chicago Bears at Qualcomm Stadium. The Bears defeated the Chargers, 22-19. Photos by Tiffany Zablosky/News4usonline.com
NFL: Chargers-Raiders
The San Diego Chargers face off AFC West Division rival Oakland Raiders Sunday, Oct. 24, 2015. The Raiders defeated the Chargers, 37-29.
Pac-12 Football: USC-Utah
The Utah Utes, ranked No. 3 in the country, square off against USC. The Trojans delivered an upset, beating the Utes, 42-24 on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015.
Pac-12: Washington-USC
The Trojans and the Huskies go at it in a Pac-12 Conference football play at the Los Angeles Memorial Stadium on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Washington defeated USC 17-7.
Pac-12: USC-Stanford
The USC Trojans face off against Pac-12 Conference rival Stanford at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015. Stanford defeats USC by the score of 41-31.
Football: USC-Arkansas State
The USC Trojans football team go up against Arkansas State at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. USC defeated Arkansas State by the score of 55-6.
Category: Sports
WNBA-Los Angeles Sparks
WNBA action with the Los Angeles Sparks during the 2015 season.
2015 AVP Manhattan Beach Volleyball Championship
Some of the world's greatest beach volleyball players converge in Manhattan Beach for the $200,000 title.


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On June 10, 2010, SCI hosted the 33rd Annual Silver Bell Awards Dinner at Pier 60 at Chelsea Piers, honoring C. Berdon Lawrence and the Rev. Jean R. Smith, D.D. with the Silver Bell Award and Vice Admiral Vivian S. Crea (ret.) with the Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to the awards dinner, the Institute held a Parade of Vessels and Blessing of the Fleet.
Photos by Gregory Thorp.
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Paul McCartney to play at Candlestick
Event billed as final concert at Candlestick
Pop legend Paul McCartney is set to return to Candlestick Park to offer a swan song to the San Francisco 49ers' former stadium.
McCartney's website posted a statement Thursday confirming that the former Beatle will perform on Aug. 14 at what is being billed as the last concert at Candlestick.
His appearance became contentious last month when McCartney's worldwide concert promoter, Barrie Marshall, mentioned he had visited the 49ers' new Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara as part of negotiations about a possible opening concert there in August.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports city officials felt slighted, since San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee had personally invited McCartney to close the "Stick." The Beatles played their final paid concert there in 1966.
San Francisco's Recreation and Park Department Director Phil Ginsberg says the city's persistence helped seal the deal.


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One of the greatest assets an entrepreneur can have is the ability to sniff out an unmet demand. If you have that, and the money to capitalize on it, congratulations. You have the tools to create a new market.
One entrepreneur who qualified is Daymond John, founder and CEO of the clothing company FUBU, which helped establish a market for urban apparel. John, a panelist on the entrepreneurial reality show "Shark Tank," said his customers were always out there, but few saw them as a consumer base to be catered to.
"I realized that there was an opportunity when Cross Colors, Karl Kani and Walker Wear started to address this market," he said in an email. "I knew there was an overall movement being created and people would want to have more than one option."
Today, enough people wear urban apparel that one must conclude that John was right. But 20 years ago, it wasn't so clear, and he said that no matter how good your instincts are, creating a new market is always an exercise that requires taking a leap of faith.
"You can assume how great your product is," he said. "But until you actually go out and sell and people come back to reorder and reorder and reorder … you will never know if a consumer truly wants to reach in their pocket and buy your product."
Read ahead and find out about the entrepreneurs whose products created new markets.
—By CNBC's Daniel Bukszpan
Posted 21 Jan. 2013
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In my code at some point I try to upload a matrix by using:
gl.uniformMatrix4fv(rotationMatrix, true, new WebGLFloatArray(mrot));
foolishly I had assumed that the second argument (set to true here) meant that the matrix was transposed before being uploaded (which amounts to using the normal mathematical convention for matrices and not the messed up convention of openGL).
however it does not seem to produce the desired effect. I've been unable to figure out what it really does,
and I fixed the problem by implementing a procedure transpose() to manually transpose my matrix.
but what is the meaning of the second argument, then? or is it an implementation bug? (I'm using chrome under linux)
Thanks for the help


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The state that guards its beaches and vistas still struggles to keep housing tracts and farmland from plowing under its unique wilderness.
Guy Wagner knows the value of a good fence. In the gated communities of Rancho Mirage—where palm trees sway against the blue sky and lawns surround the white-stuccoed houses like emerald-colored pools—he is pleased with what he doesn't see these days. A few years back he routinely found bighorn ewes and lambs munching and frolicking on the manicured parkways. "Sheep have lived here for at least the last 10,000 years," says Wagner, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "So they think they belong here—they do belong here. But people live here now too, and they don't want the sheep on their lawns, eating their roses, falling into their swimming pools and dying."
To keep man and beast apart, the Fish and Wildlife Service helped Rancho Mirage build a high fence on the hillsides to block the animals. The sheep, endangered peninsular bighorns, had been coming down from the desert canyons to feed in the valley. Fewer than 700 remain in California.
The fence works. The sheep have reverted to a natural diet and returned to their former range, which at higher elevations ends at the line of dense vegetation: They simply won't go where they can't see mountain lions and other predators.
Glorious as the sheep are, the true stars of California's wilderness may be its plants—from giant sequoias and coastal redwoods to flowers setting meadows ablaze to tiny, brittle plants growing in the region's infertile soils. Rocks from the Earth's mantle seldom see the sunlight. It's only in places where tectonic plates have collided, like California, that mantle rock—loaded with magnesium, iron, nickel, chromium, cobalt, but low in calcium—has been squeezed to the surface. Water changes the rock to serpentinite, named for its green snakeskin pattern, which, as it weathers, breaks down into nutrientpoor soil, heavy with metals. Such soils would kill most plants.
Yet only in the small scattered pockets of serpentine soils will you find Streptanthus breweri, surrounded by rocks glowing in the sun, glassy and metallic. This plant is but a rosette of grayish leaves until the spring, when it sprouts a single stem with tiny purple blossoms, gems that gave it its common name—jewelflower.
S. breweri has other tricks. To defend itself against the caterpillars of a butterfly that lays its eggs on the plant, S. breweri has evolved leaves edged with raised orange dots—fake eggs, designed to fool the butterflies into thinking another butterfly got there first.
"That's what California's biodiversity is all about," says ecologist Susan Harrison. "Small things giving rise to other small things." Harrison works with state agencies and local groups to encourage the setting aside of serpentine-rich lands. In public talks she stresses the rarity of these plants and how, because many are new species, they offer scientists a "natural laboratory of evolution"—a way to investigate how biodiversity comes about.
Much of the state is so distinctive, in fact, that scientists dubbed it (with apologies to Oregon and Mexico, which contribute parcels) the California Floristic Province. With a Mediterranean climate, geology as mixed as fruitcake, and isolation behind the Sierra Nevada to the east, the province yields a remarkable floral abundance. Of its 3,488 native plant species, 60 percent can be found nowhere else on Earth. The count of endemic animals pales by comparison: reptiles, 4 species; birds, 8; freshwater fish, 15; mammals, 18; amphibians, 25. But endemic insect species number in the thousands.
The trouble with small things is that they are easy to ignore. If the big things get hammered (96 percent of the old-growth redwood forests have been cut, though most of the remaining stands are protected), what hope is there for the small ones? How do you convince people—especially those living in regions of highly diverse and threatened species—about the importance of saving the shrinking store of life?
In 1989 the Washington, D.C.-based organization Conservation International (CI) turned to the idea of biodiversity hotspots. To earn the label, regions had to support at least 1,500 endemic plant species and to have lost 70 percent of their primary habitat. The bad news: The California Floristic Province made the list in 1990.
"The original list had ten hotspots," says Michael Hoffmann, a biologist with CI. "Now we're up to 34. We've recently recognized that Japan has a diverse flora, and the Ethiopian Highlands also needed to be on the list because of its rare Afromontane habitats and species."
The hotspot approach exerts a strong influence in setting global conservation priorities, focusing public attention and strengthening the resolve of governments. It has helped attract an estimated 750 million dollars to the conservation cause, according to CI.
CI's hotspots often, though not always, overlap with regions selected by other groups for targeted effort, including the 218 Endemic Bird Areas denned by BirdLife International and the Global 200 Ecoregions defined by the World Wildlife Fund. Conservationists are working to increase the overlap and avoid missing important regions, recognizing that the best way to save threatened species is to protect the places where they live.
Identifying irreplaceable habitats and the species they hold is one thing; protecting them is another. On the ground, conservationists run headlong into questions of local politics, economic stability, and human need.
"We haven't focused our efforts on the hotspots in developed countries, although we believe such areas are truly important," says Hoffmann. "We've chosen to work in developing countries. We'd like to think that developed countries would take care of their hotspots themselves."
The California Floristic Province faces grave threats, as do four other hotspots with a Mediterranean climate (hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters)—parts of Chile, Australia, and South Africa, and, not surprisingly, the Mediterranean basin. The reason? "They're all beautiful places with wonderful climates, and people want to live in them," says Rebecca Shaw of the Nature Conservancy in San Francisco. "So all these regions tend to face the same problems: fragmentation of habitats, urbanization, and the expansion of agriculture."
California alone, already the most populous state in the country, expects ten million new residents in the next 25 years. "Planning for growth is truly our biggest problem," says Shaw. "Yet, unlike some other regions, there is high awareness about how important environmental protection is, from the people to the legislature."
California has protected 20 percent of its land—a percentage second only to Alaska. The catch: Most reserves are set aside based on scenic values (in high elevations) and lowest economic impact, not on saving the most biodiversity. In fact, only a tiny percentage of the areas where California's hotspot species live is protected.
Above the lush hedges of Rancho Mirage, bighorn sheep continue to turn back at the sight of the fence. But Guy Wagner knows the fence alone will not save this population of sheep. Housing and golf course developments continue to chip away at the valley floor, as do homes and hiking and riding trails in the mountains. "We're pushing the sheep into a narrow band of habitat," Wagner says, "one that doesn't include enough browse for them on the alluvial fans or escape routes up the slopes. Will they survive? It's going to take some tough choices."


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CFP: Web 2.0/History 2.0: Making History Together
Web 2.0/History 2.0: Making History Together
The American Association for History and Computing (AAHC)
2008 Annual Conference
Access via Internet
April 20-22, 2008
Deadline: February 28, 2008
"The central principle behind the success of the giants born in the Web 1.0 era who have survived to lead the Web 2.0 era appears to be this, that they have embraced the power of the web to harness collective intelligence." -Tim O'Reilly, 2005
Join the American Association for History and Computing for an online exploration of the ways that technology is pushing the boundaries of the Web and the ways history is being presented. This conference will be of interest to anyone who is charged with bringing history to life - both online and in the academic and public worlds' such as archivists, librarians, historic preservationists, IT professionals, filmmakers, and academic historians. The conference will explore questions such as:
-What does Web 2.0 History involve?
-How does Web 2.0 History differ from Web 1.0 History?
-What does it enable us to do that could not be done in Web 1.0?
-What are the implications of Web 2.0 History for teaching and research?
-What are the positive and negative aspects of Web 2.0 History?
This online conference goes beyond theory into the realm of practice. It intends to highlight efforts to build history initiatives using the Web. The goal of this conference is to emphasize both practical and theoretical applications of Web 2.0. Web 2.0 enables the quick application and sharing of ideas; therefore, proposals that build something new or create new collaborations out of existing programs (i.e. "mashing-up") are especially encouraged.
Suggested topics for proposals include (but are not limited to):
-"Viral" history
-Open source programs used to interpret history
-Tagging and history
-Wikis and history
-Blogs and history
-RSS and history
-Data ownership: databases and history analysis
-Mapping history (Google-based documentation)
-Podcasting and history
-Digital video (such as YouTube) and history
-Virtual worlds (such as Second Life) and history
If you are an historian (academic, public, secondary education, graduate student) or engage history through a related discipline (librarian, archivist, publisher, editor, etc.), you are invited to submit your panel or single presentation proposals.
All presenters must be current members of the AAHC. For more information about membership, please visit our website at http://www.theaahc.org.
Proposals for complete panels should include a chair. All proposals must include a 200-word abstract for each paper, along with a brief vita for each participant. Please be sure to indicate which member of the panel will serve as the contact person for future correspondence. Please include name, address, telephone number, and email address for each participant.
The deadline for proposal submissions is February 28, 2008. Electronic submissions are encouraged.
Please direct submissions and inquiries to either:
Aaron Marcavitch
President, AAHC
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Jillian Hinegardner
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The Tee Shirts are of a quality cotton, HANDPAINTED AIRBRUSHED design by Bronwyn Doherty of iconic people or paintings of our time. I have chosen the images as they are the images that have made an impact on my life. There are some variations of sizes, however; the tee shirts that are presented here are of a limited run. I find that I cut the neck off as I don't like wearing a tee shirt neck myself, and it rolls over on its own like magic!. Probably not what you are supposed to do but it works for me!. These shirts are artworks in themselves and if you didn't fancy wearing them they work well as artworks hung on a wall too!


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If you're planning a Christmas party in Looe and not sure what entertainment to provide, a close-up table magician can offer you great entertainment that will captivate your guests and leave a lasting impression.
Magicians often get stereotyped as children performers however close up magic is quite the opposite. Close up magic performed well is generally aimed at intelligent adults that could make your party in Looe a real hit encouraging conversation.
Ed Clarke, local to Looe has performed magic at numerous events and weddings in and around Looe for the past 11 years. His aim is to provide full inclusive entertainment and comedy for everyone to enjoy.
Some other ideas for Christmas parties in Looe are to find a venue that will be suitable for your needs. If your Christmas party event is for your company, generally a hotel or restaurant is booked for the occasion. Close up magic is perfect for going group to group either at tables or amongst guests in the bar. If on the other hand you are holding a party at your home, maybe a short parlour show for your guests and then to be followed up with some mix and mingle magic after.
Whatever type of Christmas entertainment you choose for your Looe event you should make sure to book early as this is the time of year that entertainers are most busy.


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About a year or so ago, when Gutsy made its debut, a small and tricky little dilemma appeared in Ubuntu that plagues me even to today.
If I am using a machine that can't do 24-bit color — and when I say can't, I mean it lacks the memory or hardware capability — then a default Ubuntu system never gets a graphical screen. In a best-case scenario, it falls back to the console.
At the same time, if the system needs specific framebuffer support, and it's important to note that some systems don't get that with Ubuntu, falling back to the console means an empty black screen. No terminals, no console, no video output whatsoever.
Unfortunately, that's where I am right now, fiddling with an Ubuntu variant built off a recent release, where Ubuntu proper doesn't allow for a very old video system (it's the Sotec again 🙄 ), and doesn't make allowances for peculiar, outdated video cards.
Normal graphics mode can't get a working graphic screen because X is always pushing 24-bit. So when it falls back to the console, there's no support for vga16fb and the entire system goes dark. And that's the way things have been for a long time.
If it weren't a live CD it would be easy enough to fix. As it is I have to remove splash and quiet from the boot line, watch as the consoles are created, quickly jump to another terminal and insert the framebuffer support with
sudo modprobe vga16fb. Then, wait while the system finishes starting. And wait. And wait.
And that's just to get the console. Beyond that, I'm afraid I don't have much advice. Ubuntu moves so slowly on a K6-2 that I doubt the wisdom of trying to get X to start properly.
But I'm not giving up on installing. There is more than one way to skin a cat, and the time it takes me to pull the hard drive from the machine and transplant it into another and install from there. … Ah yes, that's a better idea. 😈


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Washington casts wary eye at Muslim Brotherhood
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama begins his second term straining to maintain a good relationship with Egypt, an important U.S. ally whose president is a conservative Islamist walking a fine line between acting as a moderate peace broker and keeping his Muslim Brotherhood party happy with anti-American rhetoric.
The White House last summer had hoped to smooth over some of the traditional tensions between Washington and the Brotherhood, a party rooted in opposition to Israel and the U.S., when Egypt overthrew dictator Hosni Mubarak and picked Mohammed Morsi as its first democratically elected leader.
But a spate of recent steps -- from Brotherhood-led attacks on protesters, to vague protestations of women's freedoms in the nation's new constitution, to revelations of old comments by Morsi referring to Jews as "bloodsuckers" and "pigs" -- have raised alarm among senior U.S. officials and threatens $1 billion in American aid to Egypt.
Moreover, political unrest gripping Egypt -- spurred, in part, by public frustration with Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood -- has spooked international lenders and delayed billions of dollars more. Tensions peaked this weekend with clashes in three Suez Canal provinces that left more than 50 people dead, forcing Morsi to declare a monthlong state of emergency and urging his liberal and secular political opponents to join a national dialogue, starting Monday, to ease the crisis.
The Morsi-led government is "a new administration and they're obviously having growing pains," said a senior Obama administration official who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity so she could discuss White House policy. She said the White House is increasingly concerned about the direction the Brotherhood is taking Egypt.
Yet the White House has little interest in picking a fight with the Muslim Brotherhood, which has grown in size and stature across the region since the Arab Spring revolts. The Brotherhood and similar Islamist movements are regarded warily by monarchies in Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco. Its members are part of the opposition coalition seeking to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad. It has small followings in Qatar, Algeria, and a like-minded -- although not officially affiliated -- ally in Tunisia.
Though the Brotherhood was founded in Egypt, its influence and affiliates have spread across the Mideast and into North Africa -- where two recent terrorist attacks and a French assault on Islamist militants in Mali have presented Obama with a new front in the battle against extremism for his second term.
Since the Tahrir Square revolution two years ago, Washington has tried to help Egypt build a democratic state without appearing to tread on its sovereignty. Morsi won election last June with 51 percent of Egypt's vote, and has since offered words of moderation, brokered a cease-fire between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza and bore down on terrorist dens in the Sinai Peninsula.
But Morsi's anti-Semitic comments, made in separate speeches in 2010 but which surfaced this month on Egyptian TV, also accused Obama of being a liar. They shocked U.S. officials who sprang to condemn them as counter-productive to American-supported peace efforts in the Mideast. But they surprised few people in Egypt, who have heard Brotherhood officials make similar statements for years.
Morsi initially struggled to respond to the U.S. backlash from the comments. His office issued a statement committing to uphold religious freedoms and tolerance, and condemning violence.
"The president strongly believes that we must respect and indeed celebrate our common humanity, and does not accept or condone derogatory statements regarding any religious or ethnic group," the statement said, without addressing the fact that Morsi himself made those comments.
The statement, however, did little to soothe U.S. lawmakers -- Democrats and Republicans alike -- who have balked at approving $1 billion in aid to Egypt that Obama promised in 2011 to help the new government settle an economic crisis that has drained the country's central bank and devalued the local currency in the revolution's aftermath.
"How would the American people feel about cutting money to education programs here and giving money to a government that is anti-Semitic?" Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., a member of the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees funding to foreign governments, said.
"I don't think the administration has any right to say they are going to grant this foreign aid because I think this Congress may very well condition it," Wolf said. "I think there are a lot of questions, and I don't think it's a given."
Part of the proposed $1 billion aid package depends on International Monetary Fund approval of its own $4.8 billion loan to Egypt. But that loan has stalled for months because of Egypt's instability.
Despite its misgivings about Morsi, the White House still is pushing Congress for the funding, acknowledging that Egypt's downfall all but certainly would roil the already turbulent Mideast and North Africa.
"It's not in our interest to have an economic collapse in Egypt," said the senior Obama administration official.
The Brotherhood describes itself as a non-violent social organization dedicated to instilling Islamic values in the society. In Egypt, where it formed, the group was repressed by former regimes for decades and has struggled with adjusting to its new role leading the government. Its members, fearing a coup, are widely blamed with attacking anti-Morsi protesters outside the presidential palace in Cairo last month in clashes that left at least 10 people dead.
"What they missed was the fact that they are a governing party now, and to be getting into street battles when you also have commanding presence in the Egyptian state shows inexperience and panic," said Nathan Brown, a professor at George Washington University who has been researching Islamic movements for nearly a decade. "This is the kind of group that will be a pain to deal with for the United States, but it's not al-Qaida; it's not a security threat."
He added: "The biggest fear on the part of the (Obama) administration is a political breakdown in Egypt. They are worried that a collapse in the Egyptian state would be destabilizing on the region, and might allow the flow of arms and fighters among more radical movements in the region -- especially in trouble spots like Sinai and Gaza."
Obama administration officials said Morsi's promises to abide by Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with Israel, and continued security cooperation with Israel over the volatile Sinai Peninsula shows his willingness to be a reasonable partner. Morsi's work in November to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rules was "a good first step," the senior Obama administration official said.
But Washington remains wary of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, "who come from a very conservative viewpoint with issues that are very important to America," said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.
Gillibrand was part of a delegation of U.S. lawmakers who met with Morsi in Cairo this month shortly after his 2010 statements surfaced. She stopped short of saying Morsi appeared chastened but described him as mindful of "how important America is to the viability of his presidency and the economy."
She said lawmakers want to see what actions he takes, "and we want to see if his words match those deeds and actions," Gillibrand said.
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2010 Honda Odyssey Rear Entertainment System. Honda©
It's the great high-tech showdown: As new technology floods into vehicles, consumers are starting to favor infotainment over safety features in their cars for the first time in recent memory.
Buyers now say they are more likely to spring for features like navigation and high-end audio than for safety-related services like tire-pressure monitoring or collision mitigation, according to the market research firm J.D. Power & Associates. Just a few years ago, safety options reigned supreme.
At some level, consumers must feel they are getting more value from infotainment.
"We started seeing the change about three years ago," said Mike Marshall, director of automotive emerging technologies at J.D. Power and Associates. "The trend was stronger than ever this year."
Sound systems are moving up the list that blind spot detection, rear-view cameras and adaptive headlight systems once dominated, he said.
Sign Of The Times
Many young buyers are driving the trend: A good number of the features are becoming less expensive and more likely to be available in moderately priced vehicles that new buyers can afford. But Marshall said it's basically consumer tastes — not prices — that are responsible for the change.
The shift is moderate so far. No one is expecting the market for features like parallel parking aids or active braking assists — which help slow the vehicle in an emergency — to disappear, especially from luxury cars. But even small shifts in consumer tastes can be important to an industry struggling to zero on its customers.
Auto suppliers and manufacturers bet billions on projections of the demand for their innovations. In a way, consumers are betting even more, as it's hard to put a value on the life saved when a feature like electronic stability control kicks into action and prevents a dangerous skid or rollover.
Costs Of Some Tech Features Are Dropping
If you had to pick just one epicenter of the innovation, Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany, would certainly be a candidate. It's a source for everything from clean diesels and turbocharging, to navigation systems and emergency braking aids.
Safety is still important, know how to handle yourself on the road:
- Staying Clear of Aggressive Drivers
- Nightime Driving Safety Tips
- How to Handle Skidding or Hydroplaning in the Rain
Some of Bosch's on-board technologies, such as a navigation system on the Nissan Juke and Rogue, Sentra and Versa, seem perfectly suited to the infotainment trend. Known as Nissan Connect, the low-cost navigation was first used on the Japanese brand's models sold in Europe. It's available in the U.S. for a few hundred dollars.
Initially, U.S. consumers were lukewarm about built-in navigation — no doubt due to prices as high as $2,000. But now their popularity is growing, said Mark Peters, a director of engineering in Bosch's car multimedia division. "Once people have navigation, once they drive with it, they say they won't have another car without it," he said.
J.D. Power's survey approach makes it possible to tease out how willing consumers really were to spend their money on infotainment versus other, competing features. Researchers first ask respondents whether they are interested in a particular technology without telling them the pric, and then they reveal the price when they ask the question a second time. That answer is much closer to the consumer's buying intention.
2011 Toyota Sienna in-car cd/dvd player. Toyota
Stereos Are Tops
In this year's study, premium sound systems tended to score ahead of adaptive headlights and rear vision camera systems. In a similar 2009 J.D. Power survey, 77 percent of the survey respondents initially said they were "definitely interested" in blind spot detection. But the percentage declined to 14 percent when they were told how much the safety innovation cost, an average of $1,600 at the time.
According to that study, less than 10 percent of those surveyed were "definitely interested" in advanced adaptive cruise control at an average price of $1,500. Adaptive cruise control helps drivers maintain a safe following distance and reduces the risk of collisions. But twice as many consumers in the survey were interested in on-board navigation systems at a similar price. Once the researchers put a price tag on infotainment options, consumer interest fell off, too, but not as steeply as it did for safety features.
That's a big change from just several years ago. In 2005, safety figures almost universally ranked higher on customer wish lists, according to Bandon-Ore.-based CNW Marketing Research. Back then, innovations such as run-flat tires and adaptive cruise control did better than MP3 players and satellite radio on consumer wish lists.
Are the auto industry and consumers going to see this trend continue? "That's looking into a crystal ball, but my opinion is that they will," Marshall said.
One tidbit from latest J.D. Power survey seems to bear that out: Nearly 40 percent of the smart phone owners in the survey said they wanted on-board systems that could read their emails to them through the car's stereo speakers. Still another change has occurred in the last few years: Today many of the innovations are extensions of smart phones and other consumer electronics and start out reasonably priced as a result.
In the past, navigation and audio systems made their way into luxury cars first and then gradually reached the mainstream. Prices started high and then declined along the way. "With these lower cost systems, you are actually seeing a shift," said Peters. "Some of these have not been introduced on high-end vehicles first."
From Optional To Mandatory
In the end, consumers might not get a choice on a few of the latest advances. U.S. regulators may impose them as part of fuel-economy and safety policies. One example is the requirement for electronic stability control in all cars by 2012.
Start-stop could soon follow suit. This system shuts down the engine automatically when a vehicle comes to a stop and starts it again when the driver takes pressure off the brake. It cuts fuel consumption and emissions, especially in congested urban driving.
Bosch introduced its current version of the system in 2007, and European automakers have put it on everything from the tiny Mini to the mighty Porsche Panamera Coupe. The German supplier delivered 1 million units worldwide last year. Frank Frister, a product manager with Bosch Start/Stop Systems, expects U.S. carmakers to be able to adapt their automatic transmissions to it quickly.
With the rising a Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards coming out of Washington, they may have no choice, he said. "A CAFE goal of 35.5 by 2016 is really an aggressive target for most OEMs," said Frister. "They will be trying to get all the fuel-saving technology they can onto the cars."In early October, U.S. officials floated up to 62 mpg as a possible goal for 2025, either upping the ante or turning the screws, depending on one's point of view. In the future, U.S. automakers can only hope that the innovations just keep on coming — and not just in infotainment.


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Modern magic: Melvin melts the crowds
George Melvin
at South Street Brewery
Monday, January 6
True entertainers are rare, and George Melvin is one of the few. Enthroned behind his Kurzweil electric baby grand, he shows himself time and time again as a master of his craft.
Responding to the audience reaction, he effortlessly tosses off jazz piano classics, barely glancing at his fingers dancing over the keys. Instead, Melvin works to woo the crowd, matching tune and style to mood. He even shows the same careful deliberation in conversation; the warm, easygoing manner he radiates comes with a St. Nick-issue pipe, which he clamps loosely between sentences.
In 1971, Melvin met Count Basie. It was a big moment. The musician imparted some sage advice to the budding pianist: People should understand and enjoy the music they're being exposed to, and it lies with the entertainer to encourage and foster that appreciation. It's apparent that Melvin has taken those words to heart.
I enjoyed the set at South Street Brewery Monday night. Melvin often sounds as if he's dueting with an unseen partner. The technique is easy to understand, but I imagine extremely difficult to perform: With his right hand, he plays both the melody and nearly all of the traditionally weightier, complementary chords usually reserved for the left hand. With walking bass and more chords from the freed digits, the numbers instantly unfold into rich, dense material.
Most of the time, Melvin often has several keyboards at his command. He likes to drape modern age magic over his electric piano-playing... eliciting fairly believable trumpet solos and bossa nova snares from a collection of synths, for example. At South Street, however, he relied primarily upon the skills of a trombonist and electric bassist to back him up. The result was not disappointing.
If you've missed George Melvin in the past, you can usually find him throughout the week adding class to evenings at Rococo's. If you'd rather try this at home, Melvin has released several solo CDs. He's also managed to find the time to start a booking / promotions company on the side, Lady L Productions. (The mysterious name once encouraged a late-night lonely heart to mistake the enterprise as an entertainment service, and call for male dancers at four in the morning.)
She could have gotten more swing eight hours earlier, with style.


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By DAVID GREEN
Scrap from the plastics industry is finding new life in Fayette.
Next Specialty Resins—part of a larger collection of plastics companies with headquarters in Addison, Mich.—is expanding operations at its Fayette plant located at the southeast corner of Industrial and Park streets.
Although the Fayette location has been used only for shipping and receiving since the company moved into the former Peter Stamping building in 2005, that's changing with the expansion underway.
Recycling of plastics brings to mind beverage bottles, milk jugs, etc., for most people, but those products fall under the heading of post-consumer plastics. Next Specialty Resins handles post-industrial plastic, explained company president Rajiv Naik.
Scrap from plastics companies is brought to Next Specialty for shredding, grinding, testing and blending—a process that transforms scrap into raw material ready to be used again.
The company is making use of a $130,000 loan from the Fulton County Revolving Loan Fund in an expansion project pegged at $547,000.
A sink/float system was installed for material separation and a shredding and grinding line was added.
The Fayette location will continue to be used for shipping and receiving, Naik said, but plans call for additional processing lines in the future.
The Fayette plant has four employees now and Naik expects that to reach 10 to 12 by the end of the year.
"Then we'll just have to see," he said.
Contracts with additional plastics manufacturers would increase business, and there's the possibility of adding an extrusion line in the future.
As a group of companies, a closed-loop recycling process is available—taking old scrap, processing it, and recycling it back into use.
Naik said the Next Specialty Resins will continue to inform companies in the region about its capabilities. As growth continues, the company will have an interest in employing people with plastics knowledge.


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US Envoy to Visit DPRK over Citizen's Release
- August, 28, 2013 - 12:19
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A special US envoy for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will visit the East Asian nation Friday to secure the release of US citizen Kenneth Bae.
Robert King, an envoy charged with human rights issues relating to the DPRK, added Pyongyang to his current Asian tour that will take him to China, the Republic of Korea and Japan, Xinhua reported.
King got an invitation from the DPRK government and his visit will focus on seeking freedom for Bae, a 45-year-old Korean- American man who was detained in the DPRK in November and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for "hostile acts" against the country in late April.
Bae was hospitalized recently as he suffers a number of health problems.
"As the US government has on a number of occasions since the April 30 verdict, Ambassador King will request the DPRK pardon Mr. Bae and grant him special amnesty on humanitarian grounds so that he can be reunited with his family and seek medical treatment," the State Department said in a statement.
"We remain deeply concerned about the health and welfare of Kenneth Bae, the American citizen currently detained in North Korea," White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement. "We urge the government of North Korea to grant special clemency to Mr. Bae immediately and allow him to return home with Ambassador King. "


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How To: Beachy Waves
With summer just a few months away, beachy waves will become the style of choice for those of us who take refuge at the beach – and those of us who want to look as though we've spent the weekend with our head in the ocean. So, we asked celebrity hairstylist Sarah Potempa, who has worked with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Emmy Rossum, and Lea Michele, and creator of the newest hair phenom, the Beachwaver, to offer up her tips on creating the perfect beachy waves.
"This look can range from naturally "scrunched hair" to gorgeous red carpet waves. The "Beachy" look refers to a cool, undone wave that comes from a natural pattern, whether it is created with salt from the sea or from a 1″ curling iron. The pattern of waves must go away from your face to look natural and sexy. This is what separates gorgeous waves from banana curls!
To get the look:
1) Start by using a deep conditioner, like Aussie's 3-Minute Miracle in the shower and combing through with a large-toothed comb. This will allow you to towel-dry your hair without having to brush out your natural waves. TIP: Using the towel and a setting mousse (or sugar water!) flip hair to one side and scrunch up with the towel to get the natural wave pattern started
2) Loosely Twist hair away from face on both sides and into 3 + buns (based on how tight you want the waves!), one on top for volume and the others on each side for movement. TIP: Use large 2″ bobby pins to avoid kinks created by ponytail holders! TIP: For best way to naturally dry, wear buns to sleep or place them close to the back for a "day to evening" look that can removed at night.
3) To complete the look once dry, use the Beachwaver to enhance the wave pattern and add a more "polished" look. TIP: By selecting left or right, this curling makes it easy to take flat natural waves to gorgeous "Giselle" waves by creating a more enhanced pattern by rotating for you!
"While teaching women how to create waves on their own hair, I would say "hold the iron upside down and wrap the hair backwards and away from the face", but the directions seemed too complicated for such a simple style. I had the idea to turn the iron around and have it rotate for you, going in both directions, to simply create gorgeous waves at home and so the idea for the beachwaver was born! It was a true passion project for me and took two years to bring the idea from sketch to reality. "
When it comes to hair type and texture, not all hair is created equal. So, we asked Sarah to give tips on how to make the wave for each type of hair:
Pin straight – The most important step to getting gorgeous waves that last on pin straight hair is the foundation! The hair need a product with a strong polymer to lock in the style. Try a product like Aussie's Aussome Volume Spray Gel. Spritz on damp hair before twisting into buns.
Super curly – To prep for super curly hair to have a soft wave, it is important to moisturize the hair with a heat protectant shine spray. Then blowdry each section from the root to smooth out the kinks and polish the ends. Finish with a 1″ curling iron, like the Beachwaver, to really lock in the new wave pattern, and add an anti-frizz cream to lay the cuticle down and keep the look smooth!
Naturally wavy – Naturally wavy hair just needs a soft setting foundation, like a mousse + leave-in conditioner. This will wave perfectly with a little towel drying and loose buns!
Thin hair – When working with thin hair, it is important to use a strong volumizing spray at the roots, but it needs to be blown out immediately to avoid product build-up and separation. Using a round brush to smooth it out, along with the product, will lift the fine hair and add instant volume!
Thick hair – Prepping thick hair for waves is all about sectioning. Separate the hair into smaller sections (or more buns!) when setting the hair. To keep this style looking good, add a shine serum to reflect the light.


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Every day, dozens of brides line up to marry George Clooney — having no fashion qualms whatsoever with a one-size-fits-all wedding dress.
Our culture is so starstruck and celebrity-obsessed that we even get a thrill meeting wax figures of famous people. Take a look at my friend Ilya, co-founder of Tacky Tourist Photos, who seems a little too excited about meeting the fake Jessica Simpson.
Or Heather, who likes to flirt with both the fake Clooney and the fake Tiger Woods.
Hey, I'm not suggesting that I'm above the peasantry. I'm included in the above slideshow and I also relished the opportunity to pose with the fake Elvis and the fake Evel Knievel.
I could be the most Wax-Museum-Obsessed Writer in America.
I've defended the right of Yasser Arafat to be in New York's Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum — because evicting wax terrorists is a slippery museum slope — and I have endorsed the beheading of Hitler at the Berlin branch. Much heavier stuff than flirting with George Clooney or Jessica Simpson, I know.
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"The psalmist praised God by singing, 'In your light we see light.' This clarity is felt as joy. Seeing the light is the
essence of joy and so it is the only secure basis of contentment in our life."
When we talk or think about meditation, it is very easy to get carried away by theory. And meditation is an extremely exciting and wonderful mystery to talk and think about. But the talking and the thinking have a great inbuilt danger, which is that we do not go beyond the words and the ideas and instead remain looking at a reflection in a mirror.
We are so fascinated by the reflection and so unaware that the mirror distorts whatever it reflects, that we fail to turn around and see the real thing. Seeing the real thing means doing the real thing. It means actually meditating, actually putting in the time each morning and evening, to see the real thing.
The teaching we have received, which we try to share and to live, is entirely realistic and practical. It is not concerned just with speculation or elaborating theories; it is concerned primarily with experience, experience in faith.
First, it is concerned with the experience we all start from as begin to meditate. Secondly, it is concerned with the experience we pass through as we lean to meditate. Only thirdly is it concerned with the experience we enter into, the goal we arrive at…the teaching itself has the authority to reflect and guide our experience. This is what we call a 'living tradition'.
Each of enters into it when we begin to meditate. Because it is a teaching that began long time ago, it is one that to a great degree formed us into who we are when we come to enter it. The teaching, the tradition, is simplicity itself.
It says that to meditate we have to become silent and still, not just externally, not just physically-though those are essential dimension- but interiorly silent, interiorly still. In this way the tradition leads us to enter the knowledge of unity with ourselves. The teaching leads us to find ourselves.
Our exterior stillness reflects the interior stillness. During the time of meditation you have nothing else to do, nothing to be ambitious about, to plan or to analyze. You have only to say your word.
Whatever great insights may come to you, just let them go. Whatever trivial thoughts or distractions may come to you, just let them go.
Probably to begin with we are more likely to encounter restless desire and discontentment. We are all radically discontented because we are encouraged and trained to live so much in the future, planning for the future, or in the past, regretting or analyzing it over and over again.
Our restlessness makes us miss the only opportunity we have for contentment, for fullness of life. The only chance we have is the present moment. Missing that we miss everything.
Meditation is concerned with being rather than doing…as we learn how to be, how to accept the gift of our being, we find real contentment.
The God whose Spirit dwells within us then shines through our spirit as sunlight shines through the water. This is what we call purity of heart. This is the clarity of consciousness that allows us to see God.
LIGHT WITHIN Laurence Freeman OSB
We invite you to reflect on the reading from Light Within and how it may resonate in your journey of a spiritual awakening in the 12 steps of recovery, and in particular to step 11.
Light - "I must turn in all things to the Father of Light who presides over us all." BB p.14, Bill's Story
"We all need the light of God's reality, the nourishment of His strength, and the atmosphere of His grace." 12x12 p 111
Theory - "The spiritual life is not a theory." Big Book p.83
Practical - "And let's always remember that meditation is in reality intensely practical." 12&12 p.101, Step Eleven
Experience - They are matters of knowledge and experience" 12&12 p.104, Step Eleven
Faith - "When we began to do that, we received the gift of faith, a faith which works. When we began to do that, we received the gift of faith, a faith which works." 12&12 p.30, Step Two
Restlessness - "They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks -- drinks which they see others taking with impunity. " BB xxviii (xxvi), The Doctor's Opinion
Contentment - "From a trembling, despairing, nervous wreck, had emerged a man brimming over with self-reliance and contentment" BB xxxi (xxix), The Doctor's Opinion
We want to find exactly how, when and where our natural desires have warped us…Without a willing and persistent effort to do this, there can be little sobriety or contentment for us." 12&12 p.43
Consciousness - "He has been granted a gift which amounts to a new state of consciousness and being" 12&12 p.107, Step Twelve
"When many hundreds of people are able to say that the consciousness of the Presence of God is today the most important fact of their lives, they present a powerful reason why one should have faith." BB p.51, We Agnostics
Joy - "Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step... joy of helping others to face life."12&12 p.125, Step Twelve
Love - "Step Eleven Then he asked for the grace to bring love, forgiveness, harmony, truth, faith, hope, light, and joy to every human being he could." 12&12 p.101
"But its object is always the same: to improve our conscious contact with God, with His grace, wisdom, and love" 12&12 p.101
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc. The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission. Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.